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In July of 2010, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) adopted Bluetooth 4.0 into the Bluetooth Core Specification. The specification defines a low energy version of Bluetooth that allows devices to run for months and even years on…

Apple’s new iPhone 5S fingerprint scanner “Touch ID” raises privacy and security concerns. Touch ID allows users to unlock their phones and make purchases in the iTunes store with the touch of a finger, but might not be as secure and as…

The Internet is a transformative force, especially for businesses. When the World Wide Web first arrived in the late 1990s, companies were unsure if they should have a website, how to properly use them, and what content to put online.…

The national debate on gun control just heated up again, thanks to the technology of 3D printing. Last Thursday, the U.S. government ordered Defense Distributed, an organization based out of Texas, to take its blueprints to print guns on…

As a self-proclaimed “germaphobe” I’m wary of public bathrooms and, yet, strangely I don’t think twice about using a friend’s phone. I like to think of my own iPhone as a bacteria-free safety zone, but how many door handles do I touch a…

Keeping track of my car keys remains a life-long challenge and I experience a “Where’s my iPhone?” panic at least once a week. So when it comes to security, I don’t worry about my iPhone data so much as the whereabouts of the physical…